Virus-assisted directed evolution of biomolecules

D Jewel, Q Pham, A Chatterjee - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Directed evolution is a powerful technique that uses principles of natural evolution to enable
the development of biomolecules with novel functions. However, the slow pace of natural …

Establishing a synthetic orthogonal replication system enables accelerated evolution in E. coli

R Tian, FBH Rehm, D Czernecki, Y Gu, JF Zürcher… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The evolution of new function in living organisms is slow and fundamentally limited by their
critical mutation rate. Here, we established a stable orthogonal replication system in …

Orthogonal RNA replication enables directed evolution and Darwinian adaptation in mammalian cells

L Ma, Y Lin - Nature Chemical Biology, 2025 - nature.com
Directed evolution in mammalian cells offers a powerful approach for advancing synthetic
biology applications. However, existing mammalian-based directed evolution methods face …

Evolverator: An engineered in cellulo yeast system to drive rapid continuous evolution of proteins

A Azizoglu, EY Bijman, J Stelling, R Brent - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In vivo continuous directed evolution generates genetic diversity and selects a target
phenotype to generate proteins with desired functionality. However, in current systems, the …

Detectable episodic positive selection in the virion strand A-strain maize streak virus genes may have a role in its host adaptation

KA Oyeniran, MO Tenibiaje - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Maize streak virus (MSV) has only three genes: cp encoding the coat protein, mp encoding
the movement protein and rep/repA encoding two distinct replication associated proteins …